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Products that do what Parrot – a fun, skeuomorphic audio recorder to hear yourself does
Hello HN, This is my first Show HN and hopefully a fun one for y'all. Parrot is a web app for easily recording throwaway audio clips. It was originally intended for pronunciation practice but may find other uses. I got the idea to work on Parrot after reading the Launch HN of Issen [1]. Thinking about ways to help language learners improve their pronunciation, I remembered an easy method I've humbled myself with in the past: listening to a recording of my own voice. The idea is to repeatedly record and listen to yourself, adjusting your pronunciation until you get it right. What makes Parrot…
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Fast, accurate STT for production-grade voice agents
May 2026 · ringg.ai
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Hi HN, I wanted to share my first open-source project with you all: WhisperCat . WhisperCat is a small desktop application for recording audio and transcribing it using OpenAI's Whisper API. I built this because I needed something simple and reliable for my own transcription workflows, and now I'm hoping it might be useful to others as well. It's still pretty early stage, but it works well for basic audio recording and transcription tasks. What It Does: Lets you record audio with your preferred microphone. Transcribes audio files automatically via Whisper (OpenAI's transcription API).…
2025 · github.com
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Record an audio (or an audio file) and edit it playfully!
2d ago · nich2408.github.io
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